Essentials: Language Arts/Math
ODYSSEYWARE Essentials are skills-based, concept-driven courses designed for students in grades 8-12 who have a solid foundation in math or language arts but require review or remediation before taking end of instruction examinations. Fully online, these courses engage today’s technology-adept students and integrate media-rich content, video, games, animation to aid retention of information. Robust and comprehensive, students get an overview of basic math or language arts concepts and additional practice in an abbreviated form. Ideal for students who have already completed full-length courses, ODYSSEYWARE Essentials: Math and Essentials: Language Arts add up to student success.
Give a Testimonial Share This Page Give your students a refresher course in the basics of math or language arts in a refreshing, fully online format. Better than a textbook, ODYSSEYWARE Essentials: Math and Essentials: Language Arts are complete and content-based, filled with multimedia-rich lessons that help students remember key ideas in less time than required by complete re-teaching. These classes help prepare students in grades 8-12 for end of instruction assessment and promote student success.
Accessible online 24/7, ODYSSEYWARE Essentials are convenient for both traditional and non-traditional students. Built-in automatic grading allows students to receive instant assessment feedback and gives teachers more time to teach. Students, teacher, and administrators love the user-friendly internal messaging function, easy-to-adapt assignment screens, and text and integrated wikis. These concise elective courses are fully customizable to ensure they correlate with state requirements. Best of all, there's nothing to install. ODYSSEYWARE Essentials are the perfect academic solution for differentiated learning, strategically targeted to specific students. Give your students an exciting, second-chance option for covering familiar material with ODYSSEYWARE Essentials: Math and Essentials: Language Arts.
"I greatly appreciate the wide variety of courses offered and the frequency that new courses are added. ODYSSEYWARE is a complete online curriculum solution for schools, and it's geared to meet the needs of all students."
-Quint Pease, SD"With ODYSSEYWARE, students are motivated. It's designed for kids in the 21st century. They're not expected to watch some antiquated video. Instead, they are able to participate in their own instruction through the text and the multimedia elements. That—combined with the fact that they can work at their own pace—helps them stay motivated."
-Scott Davis, TX"I had a chance to build a course for my eighth graders. I love it. I didn't have to go in and edit each individual student! It saved me tons of time. Thanks!!"
-Jimmie Baker, TXWorkstation
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Browser |
Mozilla Firefox® Microsoft Internet Explorer® |
Version 3.x Version 7 or higher |
Multimedia Rendering |
Adobe® Flash® |
Version 9.x or higher |
PDF Reader |
Adobe® Acrobat® |
Version 9.x |
Caching |
Turn off or otherwise modify local caching at the workstation level. |
Set caching to zero or lowest possible setting and purge the browser history files. Firefox: Internet Explorer: |
Popup |
Set popup blockers to allow popup windows from the ODYSSEYWARE application site. |
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Cookies |
Browsers must be configured to both accept cookies and to not interfere with cookies. |
ODYSSEYWARE application sites should be placed on the “allow cookies” list of the web browser. Firefox: Internet Explorer: |
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Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware Software |
If using AVG you must disable “link scanning.” |
Network and Appliances
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Filtering |
Put the ODYSSEYWARE domains on whitelist and/or exception list of any filtering software that may be in use. |
Add the following domains: http://*.owotw.com |
Proxy Servers (Caching) |
Put the ODYSSEYWARE domains on whitelist and/or exception list of any proxy servers. |
Add the following domains: http://*.owotw.com If there is caching on the network, users could see issues with logging in and sending answers to ODYSSEYWARE because they are not accessing our servers but stored copy of website. |
Wireless Connections |
If using a wireless network, we recommend the use of 802.11g or 802.11n. |
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Bandwidth |
The amount of bandwidth required depends on how many users are requesting data, ODYSSEYWARE recommends 25kbps for each user. |
Use a bandwidth log or speedtest to determine the amount of free bandwidth your location has to download the text, graphics, audio and video files that make up the ODYSSEYWARE curriculum and upload any work. |
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